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PeterC
 
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Default Special Format character - like Programmers 'line continuation sym

Copying and Pasting an Outlook Express email into Word 2000 resulted in lines
being terminated with some sort of line feed or new line character - I want
to Find and replace these with " " (a space) - removing these new lines.

I have not been able to find this character anywhere (except unwanted in my
Word text).

I am unable to copy and Paste this symbol into the Find window. Nor can I
Copy and Paste the Paragraph format mark - this used to work in some earlier
version of Word - Its equivalent ^p placed in the Find box continues to work.

Thanks for your help

PeterC


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Anne Troy
 
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It's a line break, Peter. Try ^l (that's a lower-case L) in the Find What.
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"PeterC" wrote in message
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Copying and Pasting an Outlook Express email into Word 2000 resulted in

lines
being terminated with some sort of line feed or new line character - I

want
to Find and replace these with " " (a space) - removing these new lines.

I have not been able to find this character anywhere (except unwanted in

my
Word text).

I am unable to copy and Paste this symbol into the Find window. Nor can I
Copy and Paste the Paragraph format mark - this used to work in some

earlier
version of Word - Its equivalent ^p placed in the Find box continues to

work.

Thanks for your help

PeterC




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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

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"PeterC" wrote in message
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Copying and Pasting an Outlook Express email into Word 2000 resulted in

lines
being terminated with some sort of line feed or new line character - I

want
to Find and replace these with " " (a space) - removing these new lines.

I have not been able to find this character anywhere (except unwanted in

my
Word text).

I am unable to copy and Paste this symbol into the Find window. Nor can I
Copy and Paste the Paragraph format mark - this used to work in some

earlier
version of Word - Its equivalent ^p placed in the Find box continues to

work.

Thanks for your help

PeterC



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